And this is why those wacky Republicans can't do what Jon Stewart does.

It's an interesting phenomena. I've never seen a Republican comedy show. I remember a while ago they tried on and well, it wasn't....what's the word I'm looking for.....oh yes.

Funny.

Is there something in the water? Is it generational? I honestly don' understand it and I've thought a lot about it recently. It seems to me that when most of them try to lambaste the Left all they end up looking is insane. I'm not saying there aren't funny Republicans. As I've said many times, I have right wing friends, and they're very, very funny. But it seems to me that most of the time, when politics is in play, there's a loss of something. I don't think it's replaced by anger or fear (I think that's a cop out), but it seems more to the pont that it just goes away. Like it disappears.

Am I nuts?

I keep thinking about Ann Coulter.

I know she's a bit extreme, and I also know that as both parties evolve and change that they want to distant themselves from any kind of extremism, but the last time Coulter tried any kind of parody, she ended up calling John Edwards a "fag".

I got the joke. It wasn't that I didn't get WHY she said it. But that kind of humor isn't funny.

So I fear that it's less about the fact that some of the Right doesn't have a sense of humor (because that's not true), but it's more like they just don't understand how to tap into it without it coming out plain nasty.

Again, I think it might be generational. A lot of that party is dying out. They're old, they're set in their ways, and their thinking goes back to Donna Reed and the Edsel in their driveway. Maybe it's just time for a new set of Repubs. Ones with spiky hair and purple I Pods. Maybe they actually know why Barney Frank is funny.

Maybe.